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Definitions

• the present invention relates to the interworking of several electronic equipment interconnected. More particularly, it relates to the grouping of equipment in order to easily access from any equipment to all the functions available in the other equipment.
• Equipment can be a device or terminal designed or adapted for Internet solutions, using hyperlinks, an HTML presentation
• An equipment can also be any type of device whose evolution towards a hypertext operation is very probable, such as fax, printer, fixed or mobile telephone, answering machine - recorder, videotex terminal (MINITEL) - Internet, video recorder, television, central stations for remote monitoring, remote reading or remote maintenance and more generally home automation centers for remote control and remote monitoring and control and / or alarm devices communicating with them, telephone terminals for access to services located in places public, cards or peripherals integrated or connected to a microcomputer, etc.
• CMIP Common Management Information Control
• SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
• the invention aims to remedy the shortcomings of the prior art mentioned above, so as to virtually constitute group equipment or an evolving terminal grouping together all or part of the functions available in linked equipment. Thanks to the invention, the functions of the group equipment can be accessed from any group equipment.
• a method for putting in functional relation several primary equipments and a manager equipment able to communicate with all the primary equipments comprises: the preliminary step of memorizing presentations of equipments in these here respectively or in the equipment manager, the presentation of each equipment containing at least one link to a function of the equipment; and, to link a given primary equipment with the manager equipment and others primary equipment already connected, the following steps: retrieve or select from the manager equipment the presentation of the given primary equipment, constitute a home page with the presentation of the manager equipment, the presentations of the other primary equipment already linked and the presentation of the given primary equipment, and load the home page from the equipment manager in all equipment as the home page for all equipment.
• a "link to a function of the equipment" within the meaning of the invention may be a hyperlink allowing navigation to other pages, or an order included in a form, or an order for the equipment itself included in a multidimensional representation.
• the grouping of primary equipment changes the functionality of the primary equipment, for example existing apparatus or terminals, such as MINITEL-Internet terminal, fax machine, telephone, television set, video recorder, etc.
• the invention contributes to the creation of an exploded terminal around the equipment manager, additionally offering the functionalities of the primary equipment. Pooling the available resources of all grouped equipment offers a set of functions at a lower cost, with better user comfort.
• each piece of equipment can include a textual and / or pictorial presentation of the piece of equipment and / or at least one function achievable by the piece of equipment.
• Each presentation can be displayed in several display modes and preferably in text and image mode.
• the home page in each device is then displayed according to at least one of the display modes used in the device. For example, the screen of a microcomputer displays the presentations in text mode and in image mode, and the faceplate of a fax machine displays presentations only in text mode
• the presentation of an item of equipment on the home page can be a starting anchor for a hyperlink linked to a function page read in the item of equipment and containing links to functions of the item of equipment.
• an address is dynamically assigned to the primary equipment by the manager equipment and is transmitted with the home page by the manager equipment to the primary equipment in order to that in all equipment, tables matching equipment addresses to presentations are updated.
• the selection of the presentation of a second equipment in the home page displayed in the first equipment links the hyperlink between the selected presentation and the second equipment to read there. for example a summary page of functions executable by the second device.
• the step of constituting a home page is carried out at least partially outside the manager equipment, in a secondary means which can be connected to the manager equipment through a telephone or local network.
• the secondary means materially distinct from the manager equipment, such as a server giving access to an image base, or a video card with screen connected to the central unit of a microcomputer, allows for example more ergonomic of primary equipment through a more advanced human-machine interface.
• the step of constituting a home page can comprise a distribution of the equipment presentations into child pages and a constitution of a page. mother with hyperlinks to daughter pages.
• the steps of constituting and loading a home page are replaced by steps of constituting home pages by the manager equipment and of loading them into primary equipment, each of the home pages comprising the presentation of the respective primary equipment and presentations of applications in the equipment manager dedicated to the respective primary equipment.
• This variant is particularly intended for "individual" primary equipment in independent relationships with each other. others with the equipment manager managing all of the group's equipment.
• the steps of constituting and loading are replaced by the following steps: constituting a home page with the presentations of the other primary equipment already connected and the presentation of the given primary equipment, and loading the home page from the manager equipment in all primary equipment as home page for all primary equipment.
• the manager equipment does not have a screen and is assisted by a secondary means that is physically separate from the manager equipment and which offers the user more ergonomic and advanced facilities.
• the manager equipment and primary equipment are linked together through a wireless transmission system, or through a carrier current transmission system, and are respectively a terminal that can be connected to a telephone network and electronic devices;
• the manager equipment and primary equipment are connected to each other through a wireless transmission system, or through a carrier current transmission system, and are respectively a microcomputer and terminals, the terminals being connected to a network telephone;
• this grouping is particularly well suited when the equipment manager composes pages reception respectively dedicated to given primary equipment and including the presentation of the respective primary equipment and presentations of dedicated applications in the manager equipment, so that most of the primary equipment benefit from the facilities of the more sophisticated manager equipment ;
• the manager equipment and primary equipment are a central microcomputer unit and electronic cards connected to a bus of the central unit.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a group of equipment comprising a MINITEL- Internet manager equipment and primary equipment connected by a wireless transmission system;
• FIG. 2 is an algorithm of the equipment connection method according to the invention, particularly during the first connection of a primary equipment to a manager equipment with reference to the first example of implementation shown in Figure 1 ;
• FIG. 3 shows presentations of two pieces of equipment forming a group according to a second example
• - Figure 3A shows a home page viewed on a screen of one of two devices according to the second example, as well as summary pages relating to the two devices and viewed on the screen
• - Figure 3B shows a home page seen on a display bar in the other of the two devices according to the second example, as well as summary pages relating to the two devices and viewed on the display bar;
• FIG. 4 shows presentations of two pieces of equipment forming a group according to a third example
• FIG. 4D shows a home page viewed on a screen of one of two devices according to the third example, as well as summary pages relating to the two devices and viewed on the screen;
• FIG. 4E shows a home page seen on a display bar of the other of the two devices according to the third example, as well as summary pages relating to the two devices and seen on the display bar;
• FIG. 5 shows presentations of four pieces of equipment forming a group according to a fourth example
• FIG. 6 shows a mother home page of the group of four devices according to the fourth example as well as two daughter home pages selected by hyperlinks in text mode from the mother page;
• FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a group of three devices according to a fifth example.
• FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a group of six pieces of equipment according to a sixth example
• Figure 9 shows home pages of four MINITEL-Internet terminals included as primary equipment in the equipment group according to the sixth example
• - Figure 10 is a schematic block diagram of a group of six pieces of equipment according to a seventh example in which four primary pieces of equipment are electronic cards.
• an Internet access terminal is equipped with a modem and connected by user telephone line to an RT telephone network. It constitutes a base station ST linked through the local wireless transmission system with "mobile" peripherals such as a CT telephone handset, a FAX fax machine, a TV-VCR TM, an RE answering and recording machine, and a DTV decoder decoding television signals retransmitted by satellite.
• mobile peripherals such as a CT telephone handset, a FAX fax machine, a TV-VCR TM, an RE answering and recording machine, and a DTV decoder decoding television signals retransmitted by satellite.
• the base station ST and the mobile peripherals CT, FAX, TM, RE and DTV constitute a group of primary equipment EPO to EP5.
• Each CT, FAX, TM, RE, DTV mobile device is unambiguously identified by the base station ST by exchanges of digital transmission protocol signals.
• the base station connects several mobile devices and performs transmissions from one mobile device to another or from the base station to one or more mobile devices.
• Each device according to the wireless transmission technique has a channel for communicating with the base station and can open another channel to another device.
• the primary equipment EPO to EP5 is defined as a set of hardware and / or software means performing and / or giving access to, independently and / or autonomously, one or more functions of known means, such as telephone, fax machine , television, video recorder, card in a microcomputer, videotex terminal, Internet access terminal, answering machine, etc.
• Each primary equipment EPO to EP5 is capable of accessing all the functions that each other primary equipment of the group makes available through one or more pages including links which a priori can be multimedia, for example hyperlinks in HTML language (HyperText Markup Language) or HTML (XML) compatible, forms with input field (s) and / or check box and / or radio button (s), VRML type presentation elements, etc.
• the fax function inherits the human interface. much richer machine with the "MINITEL- Internet” function in the base station. WEB pages received from online services are printed from the "MINITEL- Internet” function.
• Elements of dynamic address allocation protocol of the DHCP type (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, with call for comments RFC (Request For Comment) 1541) are suitable.
• Each primary device comprises at least one "interface for assisting in the dynamic creation of a home page", that is to say hardware and software means necessary for interrogating the primary device and for transmission of an IP (Internet Protocol) address allocation request by the primary equipment.
• the interface for assisting in the dynamic creation of a home page in primary equipment is used when adding the equipment primary to the group, or when adding any other primary equipment to the group.
• an interface for "dynamic creation of a home page" used from time to time to recognize and associate the equipment to be grouped by allocation of IP addresses and creation of a PG group home page.
• the interface defining the manager equipment is partly functionally remote to a secondary equipment and has tasks executed or activated from the specialized secondary equipment.
• the secondary equipment is accessible through the RT telephone network or a local network, intended for grouping the primary equipment, but does not itself belong to the primary equipment to be grouped.
• the interface defining the manager equipment has tasks executed or activated through an online service, such as server, gateway, conjugate, etc., accessible through the telephone network RT
• the interfaces for "dynamic creation of a home page” and “assistance for the dynamic creation of a home page” are included in the manager equipment when this is primary equipment of the group in question.
• the method of functional connection of equipment according to the invention comprises eight main steps ETO to ET7 which relate essentially to the addition of any of the primary equipment EPI to EP5, hereinafter denoted EPi, in the group comprising at least the manager equipment EM, i being an integer between 1 and 5.
• a photograph of the equipment identifies it very simply and is a presentation well suited to a general public environment.
• the presentation is recorded in several dimensions and / or in several formats, and / or in more detail according to the main uses offered by the equipment.
• this presentation is the page of the general summary of the main applications or functions available in the primary equipment, or else a form comprising textual headings to be completed and a link, within the meaning of the invention, for example a command such as "SEND".
• a presentation of any given primary device presents its presentation in one or more links, so that each link constitutes in each device a pointer, that is to say a starting anchor on which the user clicks or selects to specify an address of a new page read in said given primary equipment, or the command of the menu of a function to be executed in said given primary equipment.
• the address is a landing anchor of the summary page of functions available in said given primary equipment.
• the links in the presentation of the given primary equipment are internal links in the given primary equipment, but are external links in the other equipment.
• the links can be hyperlinks which have departure anchors and arrival zones, addressed by arrival anchors, which are mainly in text mode, that is to say comprise alphanumeric characters, and / or in image mode for example comprising a diagram, a logotype or a photograph identifying the equipment, and / or can be multidimensional representations or icons to control functions, or even a multimedia link from 'a frame in which a video sequence scrolls.
• the characters and / or image (s) may be associated with sound and / or a video sequence, or else words in a sound sequence or images in a video sequence may themselves be anchors for hyperlinks or orders.
• the starting anchor of an audio hyperlink to a sound sequence presenting a summary of functions can be a chosen word spoken in front of a microphone after several presentation words have been reproduced by speech synthesis.
• these various modes of hyperlinks give the multimedia character to the links.
• a primary device EPi is not capable of managing or interpreting all of the aforementioned link modes itself, it makes available to the other primary devices of the group a possibly richer presentation PRi including for example at least the two link modes main, a link in text mode and a link in image mode.
• the presentation PRi is designed and stored in the resident memory of the equipment EPi at the ETO stage. Either it is designed and initially loaded by the equipment manufacturer, or it is designed, modified and / or supplemented by the user of the equipment, by means of a manual download or input. user for example.
• the presentations PRI to PR5 of the equipment EPO to EP5 are designed and stored at least in part in the equipment manager EM.
• the primary equipment refuses to consider a page, such as a home page, constituted in another equipment and the hypermedia operation associated with it, if the primary equipment does not recognize, for example, in this home page, or in a "daughter” page if the home page has been prioritized into several pages, the "signature" of the presentation he has just made available. More specifically, the primary equipment refuses to consider an arrival anchor of a hyperlink originating in a home page from a pointed departure anchor which is not the presentation of the primary equipment.
• the first step of proper connection ET1 consists in "connecting" for the first time a given primary equipment EPi, to the equipment EM manager.
• the equipment EPi a mobile device
• the equipment EPi signals its presence in the coverage area of the equipment EM, the base station.
• the "pairing" of the manager equipment EM and of the given primary equipment EPi begins at step ET2 by a request for dynamic allocation of an IPi address transmitted according to the DHCP protocol to the primary equipment given EPi by 1 manager equipment so that the manager equipment in the next step ET3 recovers, or else selects and sends the presentation PRi of the given primary equipment EPi.
• the equipment manager assigns respectively different addresses to the primary equipment EPO to EP5 as and when they are put into functional relation.
• the addresses are stored in a correspondence table "IP addresses / PRi presentations".
• the equipment manager is then able to access the upper IP or TCP / IP layers of the related primary equipment.
• Each device is structured as a client / server identified by its IPi address. It includes a browser based on its visualization and / or designation characteristics: text only, text and images, etc.
• the grouping of equipment is carried out according to the choice of a user so as to limit the number of grouped equipment and / or define rights or conditions of use of each equipment, etc.
• the "dynamic creation of a home page” interface is put out of service by manual positioning, and / or is itself put out of service if the primary equipment to be added is not the initiator of the equipment and / or if the equipment already declared manager asks him to provide his presentation , for example, in order to avoid conflicts between several manager equipment present in the group.
• the manager equipment EM recovers by downloading the presentation PRi of the primary equipment EPi .
• the textual and / or pictorial presentation of the primary equipment EPi is retrieved in HTML hypertext or in a compatible language such as XML, as well as each link included in the PRi presentation and giving access to an object, for example to a page. function summary or directly to a function of the primary equipment EPi, by an input URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address which contains information on the path to follow to access the object.
• the presentation recovered is multimedia, that is to say contains links in text, image, video and sound modes.
• the presentation PRi of the given primary equipment EPi is associated, as a file, with the address IPi of the given primary equipment EPi.
• the correspondence table "IPi addresses / PRi presentations" is thus updated in the EM manager equipment.
• the equipment manager EM or else constitutes a group home page PG with the presentation PRO of the equipment manager EM and the presentation PRi if the given primary equipment EPi is the first to be put in connection with the equipment manager, or complete with the PRi presentation of the equipment given a home page already made up with the PRO presentation and the presentations of primary equipment already linked.
• the PG group home page for example an HTML or VRML page
• the P ⁇ presentations correspond to the IPi addresses stored in the aforementioned table, necessary for client / server operation.
• the creation or removal of the home page is the tool that dynamically meshes primary equipment.
• the EM manager equipment composes the home page according to two modes, a text mode and an image mode, each if necessary associated with sound and / or video.
• the home page in text mode contains the texts of the presentations of the primary equipment placed automatically with respect to each other in the home page according to a predetermined navigation program (browser) residing in the interface of "dynamic constitution of a home page "of the equipment manager.
• a predetermined navigation program browser
• presentations in text mode are presented successively from top to bottom as and when the primary equipment is added, with external HTML hypertext links consisting of words or groups of underlined words representative of the primary equipment; a presentation in text mode may contain the designation of the equipment immediately followed by a list of a few words of functions achievable by the equipment in question.
• the home page in image mode contains the images of the presentations of the equipment automatically placed in relation to each other in the home page according to the predetermined navigation program (browser) residing in the equipment manager.
• presentations in image mode are presented successively from right to left and from top to bottom as and when the primary equipment is added.
• the presentation in image mode of an item of equipment includes at least one link in image mode consisting for example of an image, or a video sequence, framed by a colored net and representative of the primary item of equipment.
• the framed image is a clickable image, also known as a reactive image.
• a mode combining the words and the images of the presentations constitutes another mode of the home page.
• each presentation combines an equipment image and / or function images with a text word of equipment and / or text text words, and / or according to another variant, with a sound word of equipment and / or function sound words.
• Each mode of presentation is, according to another variant, organized in a table of cells of automatically adjusted size, the cells being allocated respectively to the presentations of the primary equipment.
• the home page previously stored in the primary devices already linked in the group is automatically deleted, or according to another variant, is updated.
• the correspondence table "IPi address / PRi presentation" is also downloaded by the equipment manager EM for updating in all the primary equipment EPI to EP5.
• Group equipment can constitute primary equipment to be added to another group with more numerous functions consequently.
• the group home page PG is also downloaded to the equipment manager of said other group to broadcast it to the primary equipment in said other group.
• Selective clicking on the starting anchor of an internal link included in the presentation of a primary EPi device and viewed on the home page loaded in the primary EPi device gives access to the summary list of functions, or well select one of the functions of the primary equipment EPi for example.
• the presentation of another primary equipment giving access for example to the summary list of the functions of this other primary equipment, or one of the functions of this other primary equipment is selected.
• This selective click makes it possible, from any primary equipment, to benefit from all or part of the functions available in the other equipment of the group. Conversely, access and use of the primary EPi equipment is possible from any other equipment in the group.
• One or more links at the level of the functions of the primary equipment allow the return to the home page common to the equipment, or access to the function of another equipment. These links are established by primary equipment itself in response to receipt of the common home page.
• the cycle of the preceding stages is repeated each time that a primary equipment must be admitted to the group already constituted.
• the EM equipment manager completes the home page with the presentation of the primary equipment and downloads it to all the primary equipment, and each primary equipment in the group substitutes the completed home page for the old home page or updates this.
• the given primary equipment EPi accesses the information available in another equipment of the group using the HTTP transport protocol.
• the link between these two devices is maintained to transfer all the objects on the same page.
• Elements of different formats such as processed texts, accented characters, images, sounds, video, etc., are transmitted according to the specification for identification of file format MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) so that any equipment can communicate with n any other equipment.
• MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
• Each item of equipment is equipped with or without similar or different navigation / selection elements, namely mouse, keyboard, touch screen, speech recognition, joystick, selection / designation by combination / cursor movement / keyboard validation key, and interface operating in assigning a rank to links or other locations.
• each device has its own man / machine interface, the client device thus accesses a whole group of devices by using the device whose man / machine interface is best suited to it, i.e. equipment with the best user comfort including screen, keyboard, mouse, etc.
• the nature and the means of connecting the equipment of the group can be different, such as wired connections, wireless connections of GSM or DECT type, or connections with carrier currents for example.
• equipment having similar functions compared to HTML hypertext code and to the browser can be different, such as wired connections, wireless connections of GSM or DECT type, or connections with carrier currents for example.
• equipment having similar functions compared to HTML hypertext code and to the browser can be different, such as wired connections, wireless connections of GSM or DECT type, or connections with carrier currents for example.
• two primary devices A and B have presentations PRA and PRB shown in FIG. 3.
• the device A is a MINITEL-Internet terminal having a screen and functioning as a manager device. He memorized a PRA presentation following the text mode "MINITEL- Internet” and the image mode for a photograph of equipment A.
• Equipment B is a tri-functional telephone device of the Galéo 2610 type including a three-line display bar of text and memorized a PRB presentation according to the text mode "Galéo 2610 (Telephone, Fax, Answering machine)" and the image mode for a photograph of equipment B.
• the PRB presentation in text mode thus includes a hypertext designation of the equipment B and three words identifying functions achievable by equipment B.
• Equipment A and B are grouped into equipment of group AB, the home page of which zo
• HTML hypertext is composed by equipment manager A according to the PRA and PRB presentations read in the memories of equipment A and B.
• the equipment of group AB offering the functions of both equipment A and B is, thanks to the invention, usable from equipment A and / or equipment B and / or equipment external to group AB if this external equipment and group AB equipment are included in another group.
• the functions of the equipment AB thus constituted are accessible by hyperlinks both from equipment A and from equipment B.
• the screen of device A can display reactive or non-reactive images contained in HTML pages.
• Equipment AB from equipment A can therefore be used in text mode and / or image mode.
• the home page AB / A of the group equipment AB viewed from the equipment A consists of the two hyperlinks in image mode in the presentations PRA and PRB read in the equipment A and B.
• the layout of the presentations on the AB / A home page is from right to left and from top to bottom or, alternatively, in alphabetical order for example, and is imposed by the manager equipment A.
• the designation / selection i.e. double clicking on the upper PRA image in the AB / A home page of the AB equipment seen on the screen of the A equipment, for example by means of a mouse equipping equipment A, gives access to the initial home page A / A of equipment A which can itself have an HTML presentation composed of links in text mode and in image mode.
• the designation / selection of the lower PRB image in the AB / A home page of the AB equipment viewed from equipment A gives access to the initial home page B / A of equipment B but preferably presented with images since the presentation of the summary of equipment B is provided with internal links in text mode and picture.
• the display bar of equipment B can display only text and some specific graphics. The use of equipment AB from equipment B is therefore only possible in text mode.
• the AB / B home page of the AB group equipment viewed from the B equipment consists of an external text presentation hyperlink "MINITEL- Internet" to the A equipment , an internal presentation hyperlink in text mode "Galéo 2610" and three internal summary links in text mode "(Telephone, Fax, Answering machine)".
• the layout of the PRA and PRB presentations on the AB / B home page is from top to bottom or, alternatively, in alphabetical order for example, and is imposed by the primary equipment B.
• the designation / selection " MINITEL- Internet "for example by an elevator key and a validation key equipping equipment B gives access to the home page [A / B] of equipment A read in text mode without the images.
• the designation / selection "Galéo 2610" by the elevator and validation keys fitted to equipment B gives access to the home page [B / B] of equipment B. We then find the initial operation of equipment B with HTML pages viewed without an image.
• the equipment B is equipped with a display bar of three lines which leads to viewing only part of the zo
• two primary devices D and E have presentations PRD and PRE shown in FIG. 4.
• the device D is a remote monitoring terminal having a screen and functioning as a manager equipment. He memorized a PRD presentation according to the "Central Station” text mode and the image mode for a photograph of equipment D.
• Equipment E is a device for controlling and adjusting a domestic heating installation including a bar display of four lines of text and memorized a PRE presentation according to the text mode "Heating control" and the image mode for a photograph evocative of the control and adjustment device.
• Equipment D and E are grouped into equipment of group DE whose home page in HTML hypertext is composed by equipment manager D according to the presentations PRD and PRE read in the memories of equipment D and E.
• the group equipment DE offering the functions of both equipment D and E is, thanks to the invention, usable from equipment D and / or equipment E and / or equipment external to the group DE if the external equipment and DE group equipment are included in another group.
• the functions of the ED equipment thus constituted are accessible by hyperlinks also well from equipment D than from equipment E.
• the screen of equipment D can display reactive or non-reactive images contained in HTML pages.
• the DE equipment from the E equipment can therefore be used in text mode and / or in image mode.
• the home page DE / D of the group equipment DE viewed from the equipment D consists of the two hyperlinks in image mode in the presentations PRD and PRE read in the memories of the equipment D and E.
• the layout of the presentations on the DE / D home page is from right to left and from top to bottom or, alternatively, in alphabetical order for example, and is imposed by the manager equipment D.
• the designation / selection i.e. double clicking on the right image PRD in the DE / D home page of the DE device viewed from the D device, for example by means of a mouse equipping the D equipment, gives access to the initial D / D home page of the D equipment which can itself have an HTML presentation composed of links in text and image mode.
• the designation / selection of the left image PRE in the home page DE / D of the equipment DE viewed from equipment D gives access to the initial home page E / D of equipment E but presented only with text and links in text mode since the presentation of the summary of equipment E is not provided with internal links in image mode.
• the PRE presentation and the links in text mode in the E / D home page are accompanied by arrival anchors designating respective synthesized sound messages.
• the display bar of the equipment E can display only text and some specific graphics. The use of DE equipment from E equipment is therefore only possible in text mode.
• the home page DE / E of the group equipment DE viewed from the equipment E consists of an external hyperlink for presentation in text mode "Central Station” to the equipment D , and an internal hyperlink for presentation in text mode "Heating control".
• the layout of the PRD and PRE presentations on the DE / E home page is from top to bottom or, alternatively, in alphabetical order for example, and is imposed by the primary equipment E.
• the designation / selection " Central Station” for example by an elevator key and a validation key equipping equipment E gives access to the home page [D / E] of equipment D read in text mode without image.
• the designation / selection "Heating control" by elevator and validation keys fitted to equipment E gives access to the home page [E / E] of equipment E. We then find the initial operation of equipment E with HTML pages viewed without images.
• the equipment E is equipped with a display bar of four lines which leads to viewing only part of the home page [D / E], [E / E] on the E equipment It is necessary to make a vertical scrolling of the lines on the display bar of the E equipment by means of the elevator key to fully read the page [D / E], [E / E] as shown in D / E, E / E in Figure 4E.
• the preceding primary equipments A, B, D and E are grouped into an equipment of group ABDE.
• the ABDE group equipment offering the functions of the four equipment A, B, D and E is, thanks to the invention, usable from equipment A and / or equipment B and / or equipment D and / or E equipment and / or external equipment if this external equipment and the equipment of the ABDE group belong to another group.
• the functions of the ABDE equipment thus constituted are accessible by hyperlinks from any of the equipment A, B, D and E.
• the devices A and D are equipped with a screen for displaying reactive and non-reactive images contained in HTML pages.
• One of the equipments A and D is the group manager equipment which composes the home page in hypertext HTML of the group equipment ABDE according to the presentations PRA, PRB, PRD and PRE read in the equipments A, B , D and E.
• the ABDE equipment from equipment A or D can therefore be used in text mode and / or in image mode.
• the ABDE / AD home page of the ABDE group equipment viewed from the A or D equipment consists of the four hyperlinks in image mode in the PRA, PRB, PRD and PRE presentations read in the memories of equipment A, B, D and E.
• the designation / selection of the "house” or “fax” image that is to say the double click on the lower right PRE or lower left PRB image on the ABDE home page / AD of the ABDE group equipment seen from the equipment A or D by means of the mouse equipping the equipment A or D, gives access to the initial home page (summary) of the primary equipment E or B being able to have itself an HTML presentation made up of links in text mode and in image mode if the presentation of the summary of equipment E or B is planned with internal links in text mode and in image mode.
• the ABDE / BE home page of the ABDE group equipment viewed from equipment B or E is made up of the four text mode hyperlinks in the PRA, PRB, PRD and PRE presentations read in equipment A, B, D and E. Only three PRD, PRE and PRA presentations are shown in Figure 5 since the display bars in the equipment B and E have only three lines for links. According to a variant shown in FIG. 6, to prevent part of the hyperlinks from being presented directly to the user, as in the display bar shown in FIG.
• the hypertextual page "mother” M / BE includes the starting anchors "Home” and "Telecommunication".
• the selection of the starting anchor "House” gives access to a hypertextual page girl Fl / BE which is directed to the hyperlinks relating to the house of the user, that is to say to the text mode presentations of equipment D and E: "Central Station", "heating control”.
• devices are operated completely if each device already gives, autonomously, access to its functions by links.
• the primary equipment is the equipment of the group which has the largest list of functions.
• the equipment E1 is an alarm center constituting the primary equipment of the group E123 and serves the equipment E2 and E3 such as a sensor and a camera which have kept their initial operation and do not understand or of interface "of assistance to the dynamic constitution of a home page", nor of interface "of dynamic constitution of a home page”.
• the equipment El is also a primary equipment included in a second group E145. This second group also comprises a MINITEL-Internet terminal with a screen and functioning as manager equipment E4 and a television set provided with a video recorder as primary equipment E5, which are connected to the equipment El.
• the sensor E2 and the camera E3 are controlled and adjusted from the equipment El or from the equipment E4 or from the equipment E5.
• a centralized manager MO equipment and primary equipments I and EPR1 to EPR4 are respectively a microcomputer, a printer and "MINITEL- Internet" terminals or micro- network computers (Net-computer) linked together through a DECT type wireless transmission system.
• the EPR1 to EPR4 equipment is served by a telephone network RT to access in particular the Internet network (WEB, E-Mail, News, etc.) and can communicate, according to the characteristics of the invention, with the centralized equipment MO and printer I.
• the MO manager equipment is considered, in this example, as a means containing several predetermined applications made available EPR1 to EPR4 equipment.
• Presentations TT, DI respectively associated with the applications are stored in the manager equipment MO.
• the TT application presentation is a starting anchor for a hyperlink or command in image mode and is in the form of a framed image of the letter W on a sheet for a word processing application transposed into language. HTML and vice versa.
• the other DI application presentation is also a starting anchor for a hyperlink or an image mode command and is in the form of a framed disk image for a disk space application, for example constituting a reserved virtual disk
• the equipment manager MO also acquired PRI and Mil presentations in MI4 read in the primary equipment I and EPR1 to EPR4.
• the MO manager equipment groups in accordance with the invention, four predetermined applications of MINITEL- Internet MI types, TT word processor, DI reserved disk space and PRI printing in four Tl workstations. to T4 of virtual terminal type Tl
• T4 (MI4 + TT4 + DI4 + PRI)
• the workstation Tj (MIj + TTj + DIj + PRI) being dedicated to the primary EPR equipment, being an integer included between 1 and 4.
• the manager equipment MO composes the home pages EPR1 / T1 to EPR4 / T4 corresponding respectively to the workstations T1 to T4, as shown in FIG. 9 and downloads them respectively in the primary equipment T1 to T4.
• the home page loaded in the primary EPRj equipment includes the presentation MIj of the EPRj equipment, the two presentations of the applications offered by the equipment manager MO and the presentation PRI of the printer I, that is to say the four applications of the work station Tj.
• Each of the applications in the Tj workstation collaborates with any other application in the Tj workstation.
• a composition of documents with word processing a saving of files corresponding to these documents in a virtual disk space of the hard disk of the equipment manager MO, a printing of these files by the printer I, and access to services via the Internet by having the possibility of saving and / or printing pages of information consulted can be initialized from each primary equipment MINITEL- Internet EPRj by clicking respectively on the presentations TTj, DIj, PRI and MIj displayed on the EPRj / Tj home page.
• the configuration of the equipment according to the sixth example is particularly suitable in the school environment.
• the MO manager equipment with a high cost price is put under the responsibility of a teacher and gives resources, such as text editor, hard disk and printing, to a large number of primary equipment EPR1 to EPR4 having a price much lower cost, made available to more students.
• a manager equipment item is the central unit UC of a microcomputer to be grouped with primary items of equipment C1 to C4 and IM which store respective presentations in accordance with a seventh example of the invention.
• Primary equipment C1 to C4 are electronic cards connected to a BU bus of the microcomputer central unit UC, manage respective applications and have presentations PRCl to PRC4 in resident memories at least in image mode of the respective applications, as shown on the microcomputer screen EC connected to the the central processing unit UC in FIG. 10.
• the equipment C1 manages an application for digitizing photographs
• the equipment C2 manages an application for managing a CDROM disc player
• the equipment C3 manages an application for centralized management of home heating
• the C4 equipment manages a game console application.
• the primary equipment IM has a PRIM presentation in image mode and is a printer connected to one of the serial ports of the central processing unit UC.
• the central processing unit UC is considered only as a "host" for making inputs / outputs such as the EC screen, keyboard, mouse, etc., available to the primary equipment C1 to C4.
• the equipment manager UC After having retrieved the presentations PRCl to PRC4 of the applications available in the cards Cl to C4 and the PRIM presentation of the printer IM in step ET3, the equipment manager UC composes a home page from these presentations in the 'step ET4.
• the home page is managed by the UC manager equipment which gives access to the applications from the home page and which, if necessary, downloads the home page to the primary equipment C1 to C4 and IM.
• the home page is constituted under the control of the user who selects the devices or groups of devices that he wishes to associate.
• the seventh example illustrates in a group of equipment the introduction of local "secondary" equipment, such as EC screen, keyboard, mouse, facilitating a more ergonomic use of primary equipment C1 to C4 and IM.
• local "secondary" equipment such as EC screen, keyboard, mouse

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